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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sender

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASender.net is email marketing software tailored for e-commerce and small business marketing. It is highly focused on user-friendly experience and interface, with features for automating processes and boosting email marketing response, which aim to save users 2x time to send beautiful newsletters. Sender.net includes: drag&drop design builder.

    $11

    Up to 5 000 subscribers and up to 60 000 emails/month.

    SparkPost (discontinued)

    Score2.8 out of 10
    N/ASparkPost offered real-time analysis of email delivery and customer engagement as well as personalized email templates. The service has been discontinued.

    $30

    per month

    Pricing
    SenderSparkPost (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Up to 5 000 subscriber plan
    $11
    Up to 5 000 subscribers and up to 60 000 emails/month.
    Up to 10 000 subscriber plan
    $22
    Up to 10 000 subscribers and up to 120 000 emails/month.
    Up to 25 000 subscriber plan
    $58
    Up to 25 000 subscribers and up to 300 000 emails/month.
    Up to 50 000 subscriber plan
    $117
    Up to 50 000 subscribers and up to 600 000 emails/month.
    Up to 100 000 subscriber plan
    $235
    Up to 100 000 subscribers and up to 1 200 000 emails/month.
    Starter
    $30
    per month
    Premier
    $75
    per month
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SenderSparkPost (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsYou can choose from Monthly Plans or Prepaid Credits (Pay-as-you-go).—
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    Features
    SenderSparkPost (discontinued)
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Sender and SparkPost (discontinued)
    Feature
    Sender
    7.4
    3 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SparkPost (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Sender and SparkPost (discontinued)
    Feature
    Sender
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    12% above category average
    SparkPost (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Sender and SparkPost (discontinued)
    Feature
    Sender
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    SparkPost (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Link Tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SenderSparkPost (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.1
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SenderSparkPost (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sender.net
    It is very well suited for sending newsletters. With Sender.net, an organization can build its brand. Its transactional email features also help organizations to increase revenue.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Our early experiences with SparkPost were great; we were looking for a low-cost (or no-cost) solution to our email messaging needs, and SparkPost had the best low-cost option: 100,000 messages per month for free, guaranteed for life. Even though our team has experience with other APIs, we chose SparkPost because it felt like the best value. Our experience with it was great. Two years ago, they discontinued their free option but sent the existing users the following message: "When you signed up, we promised that if we ever changed the terms of our 100K free plan, we would continue to honor the original plan for the life of the account. I would like to reaffirm this promise: while this plan is no longer available to new customers, you are grandfathered into this level of free sending volume." The following year, apparently following a change in leadership, they decided to "deprecate" existing free plans, dropping us down from 100,000 messages per month to 500, the lowest of any email API service I'm aware of. No recognition of the broken promise, the reneged guarantee, just a 20% off coupon. This atrocious behavior that reeks of a new culture of squeezing as much money as possible out of its users and has coincided with a steady deterioration of functionality and customer service. At this point, I have no idea why anyone would pay more for a worse service that treats its users so poorly when you could use SendGrid or a similar competitor for a lower price and way more features.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Sender.net
    • UI seemed fine/standard
    • Price/free plan is generous
    • Basic features were good/standard
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    Discontinued Products
    • When you don't want to spent time writing your own code to send emails from your apps
    • When you're looking for a product which provides all that you need regarding email features to make it part of your software
    • When you want to use a product which includes templates that can be re-used instead of writing your own and all the required effort to do that
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Sender.net
    • Better graphics it looks like its from 1995 sometimes
    • Better templates to be used
    • They talk a lot about newsletters and we weren't really impressed with it
    • Better customer support
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Discontinued Products
    • When I first implemented SparkPost, I did not take advantage of the sub-account feature, and my account was suspended on New Year's Eve. It took two days until I could speak with a support representative to get my account re-activated. I am now using sub-accounts to alleviate the underlying problem, but I was disappointed that my account was suspended by an automated system with no notice.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Sender.net
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Would give it a zero if I could. Their customer service used to be incredible; fast response times, really hands-on with their users, and a pretty regular feedback process. They sent me an awesome t-shirt that became part of my go-to climbing gear. But for the past year, their response times went way down, their customer service was less helpful and generally a lot more rude, and they haven't asked for customer input once since their leadership change
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sender.net
    Its deliverability makes it more effective than other email marketing tools. It gives more than satisfactory results. And that shows in my organization's sales revenue.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Mailchimp and sendgrid are giving good services and good customer support 24/7 and ROI is increased with this as transition is very smooth. SparkPost is very expensive and not good as much as we think and they will least worried about your mails, tickets, call and messages. Highly not recommended this SparkPost to any one
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Sender.net
    • Unable to use it due to poor deliverability
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    Discontinued Products
    • It has helped us with our IP health and making sure that we avoid spam traps
    • Very high deliverability and automatic retrying once they have the event
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    Sender Screenshots

    Screenshot of Pick a pre-made free template from library.Screenshot of Easy to use interface.Screenshot of Email campaigns management.Screenshot of Subscribers management and segmentation.Screenshot of Easy to use drag&drop design builder.Screenshot of Detailed reporting.